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In a recent music video by producer and rapper LE1F (watch below) the camera pans from a larger-than-life ice cream sundae to what could be the crooning lovers of LE1F and his beau (they’re actually best friends), behind them a kaleidoscope of candy-colored Gotham City lights. Singing from a high-rise apartment in Manhattan, the two could be at a birthday party at Def Jam studios or perhaps just broke in to celebrate by themselves, leaving mixtapes as evidence. DC/AC – Juking So Solemnly from trifling mental on Vimeo . Listening to the Future, or 2011, will sound a lot like LE1F.
(Painting by Phil Ashcroft found via But Does it Float? ) So what is it about the music of Hieroglyphic Being & Holly Herndon that impels us to break away from the safety of our darken cave and into the transportation system of the Great Londinian sprawl, under a blizzard, into Shoreditch and back, past waves of humans with whom our ability to communicate face to face appears impaired, and with them, perhaps too long if the transportation system cracks under the weight of the snow as usual, and we end our night trapped in Victoria station or one of the carriages of Southern Railway, frozen, pondering on the pros and cons of doing with one of the happy revellers on the way back home what Han Solo did with that tauntaun 1 , what is it about this music that would drive the 20JFG to risk their social standing, dignity and sanity, what is it?
C'est personnelement la sélection que je trouve la plus discutable... by bil Aug 12
C'est personnelement la sélection que je trouve la plus discutable... by bil Aug 12